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When Life Happens: Making Sense of Family Leave in the Irish Workplace
Monday, 10 November, 2025
Winter is coming and so are the coughs, colds and caring emergencies. As HR professionals know all too well, this is the season when requests for time off multiply: “My child’s sick again”, “Mum’s had a fall”, “I need time for a doctor’s appointment”.But which type of leave actually applies? Force majeure? Compassionate? Parental? Carer’s? It can feel like an alphabet soup of entitlements and one wrong move can leave an employer exposed.Join Aoife Gallagher-Watson, Director, Employment Law, EY Law Ireland, Caroline Kelly, Personal and Executive Coach, TalentPro, and Laura McKee, Knowledge Partner, Legal Island for a lively, plain-speaking session that cuts through the confusion. Together they’ll help you:1. Decode the differences between force majeure, compassionate and carer’s leave2. Clarify employee rights on parental, parent’s, maternity, paternity and antenatal leave3. Handle those tricky “life happens” conversations with confidence and fairnessExpect practical examples, expert insights, and a few light-bulb moments along the way.It’s 45 minutes that could save you hours of head-scratching this winter.
